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West of the small town of Choteau, Montana, near the Rocky Mountain
Front, is a very special site known for its dinosaurs called the
Beatrice Taylor Dinosaur Research Station, owned by the Museum of the
Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. Over the past 30 years this research
area has produced the first dinosaur egg clutches known from the
Western Hemisphere, the first dinosaur embryos found in the world, the
first dinosaur nests containing babies and showing for the first time
that dinosaurs cared for their young, evidence of the largest group of
dinosaur skeletons on earth (evidence of more than 15,000 skeletons),
nesting grounds for the duck-billed dinosaur Maiasaura and the little
meat-eating dinosaur Troodon, and remains of one of the largest flying
reptiles. The popular name for this research area is "Egg Mountain,"
and the camp site is called Camp Makela after the late Bob Makela, who
worked with Jack Horner in this area for many years.
Each summer students and staff from the Museum of the Rockies and
Montana State University come to the research station to excavate eggs
and skeletons and to learn about dinosaur growth, behavior, evolution
and ecology. The area is one of the most productive dinosaur sites on
earth.
John "Jack" R. Horner is the Curator of Paleontology, Museum of the Rockies and Regents Professor, Montana State University. Dr. Horner discovered the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, and the first dinosaur embryos. He served as the technical advisor for all of the Jurassic Park films, and was partial inspiration for one of the lead characters, Dr. Alan Grant. For more information, see [Museum Of The Rockies.](http://www.museumoftherockies.org/Home/EXPLORE/Dinosaurs/PeopleinPaleo/JackHorner/tabid/389/Default.aspx.)
Camp Makela at the Beatrice Taylor Dinosaur Research Field Station
(Museum of the Rockies), West of Choteau, Montana
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